Pseudo-Philo

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Pseudo-Philo[1][2][3] is the name commonly used for the unknown, anonymous author of the Biblical Antiquities.[4] This text is also commonly known today under the Latin title Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (Book of Biblical Antiquities), a title that is not found in the Latin manuscripts.[5] Although probably originally written in Hebrew,[6][7][8] it is preserved today only through a Latin translation found in 18 complete and 3 fragmentary manuscripts that date between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries CE.[9] In addition, material paralleling that in the Biblical Antiquities is also found in the Chronicles of Jerahmeel, a 14th-century Hebrew composition.[10][11] The Latin text of the Biblical Antiquities circulated alongside Latin translations of the authentic writings of Philo of Alexandria.[12] Scholars have long recognized the pseudonymous character of the text now known as the Biblical Antiquities.[13] Primary in this regard is a vastly differing approach to and use of the Jewish scriptures.[13] For the sake of convenience, scholars continue to follow the lead of Leopold Cohn in calling the unknown author "Pseudo-Philo".[14]

  1. ^ Frederick James Murphy (1993). Pseudo-Philo: Rewriting the Bible. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507622-6. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  2. ^ Howard Jacobson (1996). A Commentary on Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum: With Latin Text and English Translation. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-10553-9. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  3. ^ Philo (30 June 2007). The Biblical Antiquities of Philo. Cosimo, Inc. ISBN 978-1-60206-567-3. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  4. ^ Jacobson, Howard (1996). A Commentary on Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, with Latin Text and English Translation. Leiden: Brill. p. 195. ISBN 90-04-10360-0.
  5. ^ Jacobson, Howard (1996). A Commentary on Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, with Latin Text and English Translation. Leiden: Brill. pp. 197–199. ISBN 90-04-10360-0.
  6. ^ Murphy, Frederick (1993). Pseudo-Philo: Rewriting the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-19-507622-6.
  7. ^ Harrington, Daniel (1970). "The Original Language of Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum". Harvard Theological Review. 63 (4): 503–514. doi:10.1017/S0017816000032697.
  8. ^ Cohn, Leopold (1898). "An Apocryphal work ascribed to Philo of Alexandria". Jewish Quarterly Review. 10: 308–312.
  9. ^ Harrington, Daniel (1973). "The Text Critical Situation of Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum". Revue bénédictine. 83 (3–4): 383–388. doi:10.1484/J.RB.4.00711.
  10. ^ Jacobson, Howard (1989). "Thoughts on the Chronicles of Jerahmeel, Ps-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, and Their Relationship". The Studia Philonica Annual. 9: 239–263.
  11. ^ Harrington, Daniel (1974). The Hebrew Fragments of Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum Preserved in the Chronicles of Jerahmeel. Missoula, MT: Society of Biblical Literature.
  12. ^ Goodenough, Erwin R. (1938). The Politics of Philo Judaeus: Practice and Theory. New Haven: Yale. pp. 177–179.
  13. ^ a b Cohn, Leopold (1898). "An Apocryphal Work Ascribed to Philo of Alexandria". Jewish Quarterly Review. 10: 306–307.
  14. ^ Cohn, Leopold (1898). "An Apocryphal Work Ascribed to Philo of Alexandria". Jewish Quarterly Review. 10: 308.